Johann Sebastian Bach: Biography (1)

[Lyosana]

La mise en scène est exécrable, tout comme les dialogues d'ailleurs. Ce n'est que les dix premières minutes, espérons que le niveau s'élève par la suite.

Yeah, Bach speaks french in this movie as Beethoven speaks english in Immortal Beloved with Gary Oldman... Is that such a big deal? Gonna cry?

[fatahmyx]

Why did Bach speaks in French? :D Anyway I would love if someone upload the one with English subs

[Pomozimokolegama]

Where is IMDb for this?

[paminablue]

I love when Fischer-Dieskau starts singing!

[Gresilde]

Julius, I *do* speak French; but such a video should be in the original language, if at all possible, with subtitles.

[ammanalo]

completely surreal to hear Bach speaking French

[saintsaens21]

Thanks for uploading this.

[Gresilde]

Fancy doing this in French. How ridiculous. Do it in GERMAN with English subtitles, dudes.

[saintsaens21]

@Gresilde petit rigolo...

[JuliusRashad]

@Gresilde Learn it as we, French's Talkers, learned English :D !

The film is french...they did it in French. Logical.

I've no doubt about the fact that Germans have already done one over him.

[Stehnz]

"forberger" n'importe quoi.. FROBERGER

[aadeebindy]

thumbs up if skid row brought you here

[guitarfan1979]

if the video is in french fcukin name it in french not english and stop wasting ppl's time you moron

[FONTANALESS]

Where I can get the full video in Spanish?

[EugeneSurguy]

WHAT?! he dies at the end??

.....lol just joking :P

[Moon0Royalty]

4 years of studying French and I understood about 1% of what they were saying. :'(

Does anyone have English translations?

[EPJM1750]

It isn't High School modern French. It's real baroque French

[stargirlsusan]

the oppening cantata goes so great with the scene

[yokbrok2009]

Je ne savais pas qu'ils avaient du chewing gum à cette époque...(cf 5:30) :-)

[angelialvares]

Bach studies by heart and copies the manuscripts by moonlight . He is often sick from lack of sleep. His brother discovers the copied manuscripts and destroys them .That year as a punishment Bach is not allowed to the family reunion. As Christoph's house is now crowded with more children, the elder brother sends the young Bach to Luneburg where his present school teacher finds him a scholarship as a singer in the choir. Bach had a beautiful soprano voice. Bach promises Christoph to do his best.

[dwinmary]

hello. what is the original name and year of the film? I´d like to find it with english subtitles but my search has been unsuccesfull yet. thanks. mary

[diegooogle]

@dwinmary

Original name of the film is "Il était une fois Jean-Sébastien Bach" (2003). You can find the english subtitles in the net.

[sowhat123]

@angelialvares hey man could you post a summary like this for the other parts if and when you have the time. i so wish there were subtitles on this.

[DarkLoveFashion]

Gracias a Bach mi amor por la musica y el violin nunca morira. Es tanto lo que admiro a este gran hombre que ni mil palabras podrian describir este gran sentimiento. Gracias Bach.

[NorbertZF]

Non parlez vous Francais, fur stehe? English subtitles would certainly expand your market for things like this.

[stargirlsusan]

This is wonderful

Can u put some sort of English or Spanish subs!! Either will work for me

Or someone in here that can translate I want to know what they say so bad! I don't know if I can go to sleep without knowing it!

[koyuki1949]

Please, put english subtitle in this .

Plea~~~se!

[thegoddescomposer]

did u guys know bach did know his death date

deep in his music most of his biggest inportant works deep in side his work are numbered his death date and also in cristian rozencreutz

[lapmarty]

@thegoddescomposer where??i heard the b-a-c-h in one of is last fugue but no date.....

[thegoddescomposer]

@lapmarty it called numbers symbolism bach used on his name

BACH =14 why ?

2138=14 most of his fugues the motif has 14 notes like on his first fugue on his wtc 1 book in his last contrapuncts 14 the second motif has 41 notes why j.s.bach =41

like his 14 inventions but there is 15 u know why ? 1 on bible number symbolism is 1 = God so 14= bach + 1 = Bach and God

i have the ook bach and the number, there is alot of dates of bach death in his works and the day of the yar number also

[gr0mithtimon]

@thegoddescomposer

You can do this kind of thing to any kind of music or book, thought i certainly understand why you would do it with Bach. But it doesn't prove anything.

[thegoddescomposer]

@gr0mithtimon ofc not but there is a book named Bach and the number,

so u can see there what Bach actually did in his music.

do this Johann=58 Sebastian=86 Bach=14

do 58x86x14=69832

They counted Bach days it comes out of 23869

just mirrow it 23869 69823

[gr0mithtimon]

@thegoddescomposer

No, you can see what the writers of the book did to get interesting results. Like i said, you can write such a book about any composer. Maybe Bach did some of it on purpose, maybe not. There is simply no way to know.

[thegoddescomposer]

@gr0mithtimon only Bach did this, u should go to wiki to read more about this. this is not a joke :S

u know Bach's b minor miss

there are 2345 bars of music in the Mass in b-minor.

2+3+4+5=14

B+A+C+H=14

dude u think this is made up ? There is a structure in bach mattheus passion u can see a cross

search it on google or find it on wiki, GL

[gr0mithtimon]

@thegoddescomposer

Why would one add these numbers to each other in that way? _Because_ it gives the value 14. Think about it; You look for numbers that sum to 14. When you find such numbers, you add them. Surprised, you get 14. Magic? If you look for numbers you can add to get 14, you will find them. The man composed thousands of pieces of music. It is not surprising that you can add numbers like this and get results. It would be surprising if it could not be done. It doesn't prove anything.

[thegoddescomposer]

@gr0mithtimon well for you doenst prove it for the other people who has eyes does it prove it all, but thats your problem, your stuck you dont wanna see it

thats kinda suck for you, you dont wanna see it, how this works, and how Bach did this, u just cannot believe it and see it, thats your problem have nice day

[javilack]

@thegoddescomposer This doesn't make any sense. You are trying to find something divine in a mere mortal´s life.

[ceadachrua]

@javilack Every mere mortal's life is divine, if we bother to look.

[javilack]

@ceadachrua we can't argue on whether blue is better than red.

[ceadachrua]

@javilack True!

[SecondAgeOfReason]

@gr0mithtimon There is more evidence of Bach doing this because of all of the similar things he would throw in. He used his name as a subject. Analysis of tempos and bar lengths reveal lengths of movements to be in simple ratios of eachother (2 to 3, 1 to 2, etc). The Musical Offering is full of puzzles (if you haven't seen the canons you need to look them up). I say it's plausible.

[gr0mithtimon]

@SecondAgeOfReason The puzzles that are included in the musical offering simply do not prove that he inserted hidden messages in his musical themes in the way of how many notes they consist of (an odd leap of logic!). It shows that Bach likes symbolism and puzzles, but surely not every note he writes is symbolic or a puzzle, and to find out where specifically he is using either of those you need to do some very thorough (mathematical) analysis to rule out the effects of chance.

[SecondAgeOfReason]

@gr0mithtimon I was talking about the plausibility of a comment about the measures in his B minor mass or something like that. I can't now find the comment. Some of the things earlier don't look plausible, but what I was replying to seemed to be very likely. Since Bach was known to purposely put symbolism in his music, the "leap" in logic is that it is more likely that given symbolism found in his music was intended than for other composers.

[Jitpring]

I sure with this had English subs. It looks good.

[Jitpring]

@Jitpring That is, I wish....

[arturobach]

Gracias, Bach para mi el músico más grande de todos los tiempos. .

[b0ttomzone]

Seit wann spricht der Bach den Franzoesisch?

[weddinganejakopp]

@b0ttomzone Der konnte sogar Latein und Italienisch, wie diverse Kantaten belegen. Französisch war anders als englisch im Bildungsbürgertum des 17./18. Jahrhunderts absolutes Muss. Bei Hofe parlierte man nur in dieser Sprache.

[NagualElias]

where'd you get this? is there a subtitled version?

[operajdflorez]

Wonderful - thank you very much ! GK